In case you haven’t seen Friedlander outside of 30 Rock — and you may not have even known you saw him on the big screen, as he tends to disappear into his movie characters in The Wrestler, American Splendor or Star Wars: The Force Awakens — onstage at a comedy club, he is the World Champion. His self-described title emblazoned upon his yellow T-shirt, black wind breaker and his trucker hats; the latter, sometimes in foreign languages or this case, sign language (you may recall his customized joke hats he wore on 30 Rock).

As Friedlander has grown older, his voice has achieved a deeper gravelly tone, which reminds you of Steven Wright (when he slows it down in a one-liner). Instead of Wright’s surreal absurdity, though, Friedlander traffics in social commentary that often flips the script. Like this line: “I wrote a self-help book for trees. It’s called How Not to Become A Book.”

His World Champion persona, on the other hand, makes him the ultimate one-upper, so instead of flying into New York City from another country, he parkoured his way there. His karate moves happen so quickly you cannot see them. As the World Champion (a character Friedlander began inhabiting years before Kristen Wiig’s Penelope sketches on Saturday Night Live), his personality succeeds in crowd work. Instead of investigating an audience member’s hometown or occupation, Friedlander competes and defeats them with his own take. Which lends itself particularly well to the premise of his first special, shot and directed by the comedian in black-and-white, in a series of short segments.

Similarly, Friedlander demonstrates how even the worst statistics about life in America can be twisted to make the case that the United States remains the best. High incarceration rates simply prove how much our government wants us to have free food and lodging. Olive Garden proves how successful it is an Italian restaurant, and the lack of them in Italy is evidence of how small and unsuccessful their restaurants must be.

It takes a lot of worldly knowledge to do crowd work with anyone anywhere and compare them to America, accurately AND humorously.

Behind the big glasses, under the hat, behind the beard and free-flowing salt-and-pepper hair, Friedlander has an answer for all of today’s hot-button issues. Even the relatively new idea of fake news. To which he counters: “What about the horoscope section in the newspaper?”

So why not follow his destiny and have the World Champion run for president of the United States? Friedlander will challenge Trump, but not in 2020. He’d rather have the showdown right here, right now. If not onstage, then out in the parking lot. And he’ll take questions from any audience about his campaign platform.

An America under President World Champion Friedlander would include Puerto Rico as an official state, bring Hawaii and Los Angeles closer to the East Coast, and solve the homeless problem while also giving them full-time jobs. You’ll also hear his thoughtful if also slightly delirious policies toward immigration, vaccinations, fracking, gun control and racism.

Naming himself World Champion is no more delusional a prospect, however, than a country celebrating a holiday for a guy discovering a country with a pre-existing population. Only America does that on Columbus Day. Only America could produce a World Champion, too.

So give Friedlander a chance. Hear him out. He might not actually become our next president, but his idea to apply term limits to citizens has a lot of merit. If we had to re-elect our neighbors into continued existence every four years, as Friedlander says, “maybe people would be a bit nicer to each other that way.”